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The word 'expository'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
expositoryOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus7.2243
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 30.2 23 2
SEA - South East (Borders) 12.1 1 1
SWE - South West (Galloway)
DUL - Donegal (East Donegal)
WUL - West Ulster (Letterkenny / L'Derry)
CUL - Coleraine Ulster (North Antrim)
BUL - Ballymena Ulster (Mid Antrim)
SUL - South Antrim (Between Sixmilewater and Belfast)
BEL - Eastern Ulster (Belfast)
PUL - Peninsular Ulster (Ards)
EUL - East Antrim (Larne)
GUL - General Ulster
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of expository in Corpus

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General Central

Tait, John M Lallans 62 - Expository Scots, (Lallans Magazine 2003) Central, prose
Expository Scots
e time jouk the question o an expository register.
The expository register o a langage is the a
– includin the narrative an expository pairts o prose writin. Sic a
alogue, an aften for poietry. Expository Scots needs ti be biggit up a
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Tait, John M Lallans 63 - Expository Scots (2), (Lallans Magazine 2003) Central, prose
Expository Scots (2)
a hale langage it maun hae a expository register, an a expository reg
register, an a expository register maun hae a regular g
ye coud cleck a grammar for a expository register. I’m gaun ti sugge
referred til as a foond for a expository register.
10 matches

McClurg, Fernando Scots, the Electoral Commission an the language community, (The Sair Fecht 2016) Central, blog
clike domains. We aw ken that expository Scots prose is a bit o a free
1 matches

South East (Borders)

Purves, David Lallans 67 - The Incomparable Li Po (701-762), (Lallans Magazine 2005) Southern - Selkirk, poetry
n an the'r a want o models in expository prose (Purves, 2002). For aw, on page 34

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